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 4.3.7. Activating and Deactivating Volume Groups

When you create a volume group it is, by default, activated. This means that the logic
accessible and subject to change.
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There are various circumstances for which you you need to make a volume group ina
 the kernel. To deactivate or activate a volume group, use the -a (--available) argum
command.

The following example deactivates the volume group my_volume_group.

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vgchange -a n my_volume_group

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If clustered locking is enabled, add ’e’ to activate or deactivate a volume group exclus
activate or/deactivate a volume group only on the local node. Logical volumes with si
always activated exclusively because they can only be used on one node at once.

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You can deactivate individual logical volumes with the lvchange command, as describ
“Changing the Parameters of a Logical Volume Group” (LV_change.html), For inform
volumes on individual nodes in a cluster, see Section 4.8, “Activating Logical Volume
Cluster” (cluster_activation.html).
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